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The Newsroom “Red Team III” Season 2 Episode 7 airs Sunday August 25 at 10 pm ET/PT.
Episode Synopsis: “Red Team III” – Through depositions with the newsroom staff, Rebecca pieces together the events that led to ACN’s fateful decision to go forward with Jerry’s special report on Operation Genoa – as well as the post – air revelations that undermined its credibility. The repercussions threaten to ruin “News Night” while eclipsing breaking news during another 9/11 anniversary.
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//www.tvequals.com/2013/08/25/the-newsroom-season-2-episode-7-red-team-iii/

Sam Waterston couldn't be happier to be in the hot seat in Season 2 of "The Newsroom."As Atlantis Cable News chief Charlie Skinner on the Aaron Sorkin-created HBO drama series, the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor is among those playing witnesses being deposed about an alleged war crime labeled Operation Genoa, ACN's related story having been proven to be built on wrong information.Sunday's (Aug. 25) new episode takes the internal probe to its peak ... and heads may roll, including Charlie's."Just you wait!," Waterston gleefully tells Zap2it. "The thing that's so amazing about what Aaron does is that most stories content themselves with tying one person to the tracks, then having the train bear down on them. But he's got so many irons in the fire, so many balls in the air, it's just astounding how he does this."Not only is the result dramatically sound to Waterston, he adds, "It's a true thing for the...
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Even though Hamish Linklater 's character on The Newsroom is at the center of the season's slowly unfolding disaster known as "Genoa," the actor has a hard time accepting his character as a villain.
"He's just a true believer who thinks he's on the side of the angels, and that's why he does what he does," Linklater tells TVGuide.com of his character, Jerry Dantana. "But what was great was that they didn't push me into twirling my mustache or being sort of an obvious bad guy."
//www.tvguide.com/News/The-Newsroom-Hamish-Linklater-1069562.aspx?rss=breakingnews

As we learned last week on The Newsroom , none of it was true .
The Genoa scandal was a story ACN never should have covered.
Just what will the fallout be on this Sunday's new episode of the HBO hit?
First, we'll see Don on the legal hot spot, answering questions from the network's lead attorney... and having Maggie's back in the process. See what we mean in this sneak peek:
//www.tvfanatic.com/2013/08/the-newsroom-sneak-peeks-jim-vs-jerry/

HBO executives Richard Plepler and Michael Lombardo didn't have a lot of big news to break at the TCA press tour session Thursday (July 25), but they provided a lot of little bits of news on shows that are currently on the air and projects in development. A rundown:- The odds are "excellent" for a third season of "The Newsroom," Lombardo says, noting ratings for the first couple of episodes are up over last season."The conversation with Aaron [Sorkin] are all about schedule," Lombardo says. "... If we can figure out scheduling in terms of his time and being on the air next year, I would be shocked if you weren't hearing an announcement soon."- The final (half-) season of "Treme" is scheduled to premiere Dec. 1, taking the Sunday-night spot "Boardwalk Empire" will hold in the fall.- A miniseries from "Sopranos" creator David Chase that HBO announced four years ago -- but about which... //blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/07/the-newsroom-season-3-is-probably-happening-and-more-hbo-news.html